Definition of plate

"plate" in the noun sense

1. home plate, home base, home, plate

baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"

2. plate

a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

3. plate

a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

4. plate

dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

5. plate, plateful

the quantity contained in a plate

6. plate, crustal plate

a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

7. plate

the thin under portion of the forequarter

8. plate

a main course served on a plate

"a vegetable plate"

"the blue plate special"

9. plate

any flat platelike body structure or part

10. plate

the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

11. plate, photographic plate

a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

12. plate

structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

13. plate, collection plate

a shallow receptacle for collection in church

14. plate, scale, shell

a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

15. denture, dental plate, plate

a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

"plate" in the verb sense

1. plate

coat with a layer of metal

"plate spoons with silver"

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Quotations for plate

He eats in plate, but will die in irons. [ Proverb ]

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. [ Yogi Berra ]

The breast-plate of innocence is not always scandal proof. [ Proverb ]

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth. [ Cervantes ]

The bore is the same eating dates under the cedars of Lebanon as over a plate of baked beans in Beacon Street. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware. [ Seneca ]

To be as good as our fathers, Me must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]

plate in Scrabble®

The word plate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters plate:

PLATE
(30)
PLEAT
(30)
LEAPT
(30)
PETAL
(30)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word plate

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In plate

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(30)
PETAL
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(27)
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plate in Words With Friends™

The word plate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters plate:

PETAL
(51)
LEAPT
(51)
PLEAT
(51)
PLATE
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word plate

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In plate

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(51)
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(51)
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(51)
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(51)
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(48)
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(48)
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Words containing the sequence plate

Word Growth involving plate

Shorter words in plate

at ate late

la late

Longer words containing plate

armorplate armorplated

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arrowplate arrowplates

backplate backplates

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numberplate numberplates

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plateau plateauing

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plateholder plateholders

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platelike

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platework plateworker plateworkers

platework plateworks

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screwplate screwplates

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silverplate silverplated

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steelplate steelplates

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